Serena Williams vs Margaret Court: Much ado about Number 24
By Ahmed Olayinka Sule on 5 March 2021
Within hours of Serena Williams’s semifinal loss to Naomi Osaka at the recently concluded Australian Open, Matt Davies of the
When Williams defeated her sister Venus Williams at the 2017 Australian Open to win her 23rd Grand Slam title, she overtook Steffi Graf as the player with the most number of Grand Slam singles titles in the Open Era. The next year, when she resumed playing tennis after having a baby, tennis pundits airbrushed Graf from the history books and picked up Court’s long-forgotten and long-dismissed record from the dustbin of tennis history, using it as the golden standard to judge Williams’s legacy.
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The Limerick footballer who became Hurler of the Year
Gearóid Hegarty’s golden season is one to savour for the St Patrick’s club who watched him grow into a star. Fintan O Toole By Fintan O Toole Thursday 25 Feb 2021, 12:59 PM Feb 25th 2021, 12:59 PM 17,799 Views 6 Comments
EARLY IN THE summer of 2015, the clock was starting to tick in the Limerick U21 hurling camp.
They were a few weeks out from a Munster semi-final against Tipperary, working with a squad backboned by classy minor hurlers fresh from winning back-to-back provincial crowns.
The hard selection calls were fast approaching but the management retained an open mind. They had spread the net wide to trawl the county in search of talent.
A dream come true as Longford swimmer Darragh Greene heading to Tokyo Olympic Games with Team Ireland
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Longford swimmer Darragh Greene has said he is absolutely honoured and delighted to be nominated to represent Ireland at his Olympic Games this summer in Tokyo.
Absolutely honoured and delighted to be nominated to represent @TeamIreland at my first Olympic Games this summer! Absolute dream come true! Sláinte to everyone who has supported me on this journey, HWG pic.twitter.com/K3QdLSiWpG Darragh Greene (@GreeneDarragh) January 26, 2021
Swim Ireland today announced its revised Olympic nomination policy for the Tokyo Games and this means Darragh Greene and Shane Ryan can now both be considered for the Games as the two Irish swimmers to post performances under the FINA ‘A’ time in their respective events in the designated period thus far.